It’s like we’re on a speed run toward the near-future Charlie Brooker warned us about.
But TBF, “Hang the DJ” was one of the few Black Mirror episodes that wasn’t a total downer.
I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
It’s like we’re on a speed run toward the near-future Charlie Brooker warned us about.
But TBF, “Hang the DJ” was one of the few Black Mirror episodes that wasn’t a total downer.
Tuberville defended Trump’s right to choose his team, urging senators to “vote with President Trump.”
The same Tuberville that held up more than 300 of Biden’s non-political military promotions now thinks nominations should just get a rubber stamp?
The sad thing is, it works for both.
Maybe I’m remembering early/beta Teams with rose tinted spectacles, but at the very least the silver lining was that I no longer needed to keep a separate Windows machine running just for work IM.
I even tried adding it to Citrix, but it refused to install on a server version of Windows.
We used to use it before switching to Google Workspace (don’t get me started on how much I hate that), and Teams wasn’t too bad. But it had two things going for it then:
I blocked most of them over the last year because the lion’s share of them seemed very disingenuous. i.e. they’re here only to screech about a wedge issue during an election season, to use it as a bludgeon to universally bash anyone they disagree with, and generally doing nothing but stirring up shit.
I’ve heard other people mention recently that those accounts have apparently gone silent.
So, let this be a lesson for the next election if we’re fortunate enough to have one: If an account does nothing but screech about a wedge issue, just block them. Mods would be wise to take a closer look at those accounts, too.
It was not.
But the Democrats didn’t reach out to me, personally, and massage my feet while talking to me about my pet issue! So, really, there’s plenty of blame to share. /s
See also:
Do you really think he changed his stance since then?
He’s also the new US ambassador to Israel. That’s from 2 hours ago.
And to make this even more ridiculous than it already is, they’re calling this board the “warrior board”.
If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” … But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire “woke generals,” referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.
As commander in chief, Trump can fire any officer at will, but an outside board whose members he appoints would bypass the Pentagon’s regular promotion system, signaling across the military that he intends to purge a number of generals and admirals.
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But some former officials believe the potential Trump administration is looking to politicize the military. “Do they start wearing MAGA hats in formation to signal who’s where?” asked one former senior Pentagon official. “The potential for this to go wrong is infinite.”
Emphases mine.
Good job everyone who sat out or voted 3rd party this election. You saved Palestine!
Update: Found the banner. Thanks, Wayback Machine!
However, with Democrats’ narrow majority and opposition from Senator Joe Manchin, any replacement would face confirmation challenges.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sotomayor-supreme-court-trump/
Yeah, the safer bet is to hope she stays healthy for at least the next 4 years. Her stepping down now would 100% be a vacancy that the Senate refuses to let Biden fill.
Reddit is dead to me and blocked in my router, so I’m good sharing knowledge and cool stuff here.
True, but with that level of selfishness, the “eff you” is there implicitly.
The “I got mine” mentality.
Yep, you nailed it with ‘selfishness’.
More blame shifting, and I will not accept it. We all knew what was at stake, and we let it happen.
Again, we failed.
Black Mirror didn’t do that one, but American Horror Stories did:
https://screenrant.com/american-horror-stories-season-3-episode-2-daphne-ending-explained/
Which is surprising because that show normally kinda sucks. Got roped into watching it last year, and I forgot I was watching AHS halfway through and almost thought it was a new Black Mirror.